On Dec 18, 2007 1:14 AM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:42:06PM -0800, Al Tobey wrote: > > >I've had good luck with installing to hard drives connected via a USB > >adapter to another computer that has a CDROM. Pick up a laptop IDE > >to USB adapter for around $30.00 and hook it up to a desktop with USB > >& CDROM with its drives disconnected to prevent accidents. You have > >to know the right files to edit to get the drivers straightened back > >out on some distributions, but it's a lot easier these days than it > >used to be. > > Beware that most of the isolated IDE to USB adaptors have real annoying > problems, like silently corrupting the data that you write to them. I'd > love to use one of these devices, but I have yet to find one that can > write > several GB of data without changing the data as its written. > > Reading the usb mass-storage mailing list, it seems that they usually just > don't bother checking the USB checksum. Instead of retransmitting a bad > packet, they just write the corrupt data. > > I haven't had any problems with enclosures with drives in them, just with > the bare adaptors. > > Dave >
Thanks guys, I really appreciate all the input. It hit me today that I don't need a PCMCIA CDROM, I figured why not use a bootfloppy and USB CDROM instead? This older laptop can only boot from a USB floppy, or PCMCIA CDROM, nothing else will work. I tried installing DSL, but the kernel is just a tad too old. Doing some research on PuppyLinux, they have a wakepup bootfloppy that should work, but before I go and get a USB CDROM, I'll try it with a thumbdrive... Thanks again, Happy Holidays. -- Mark Schoonover http://ka6wke.blogspot.com http://marksitblog.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give me ambiguity, or give me something else! --kelsey hudson -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
